isPlayer

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Description

Description:

Checks if given person is a player. Returns true for headless clients as well.
While identity still exists on the dead body of a player, the alternative syntax will return true.

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Prior to Arma 3 v2.02, in some cases the identity of certain player units could fail to propagate to other clients and the server, which caused isPlayer and getPlayerUID to incorrectly return false and "" respectively, where the affected units were not local. See this bug report (GitHub) for more info. This was supposedly fixed, but you should remain vigilant toward false negatives nonetheless.

Groups:

Multiplayer

Syntax

Syntax:

isPlayer unit

Parameters:

unit: Object

Return Value:

Boolean

2.06

Alternative Syntax

Syntax:

isPlayer [person]

Parameters:

[person]: Array

person: Object - dead or alive player

Return Value:

Boolean - true if is/was player

Examples

Example 1:

if (isPlayer _Soldier1) then { _soldier1 setDamage 1; };

Example 2:

_playerCount = { isPlayer _x } count playableUnits;

Example 3:

private _wasPlayer = isPlayer [_deadBody]; // returns true if _deadBody's identity still exists and was controlled by a player

Additional Information

See also:

player playableSlotsNumber playableUnits playersNumber

Notes

Report bugs on the Feedback Tracker and/or discuss them on the Arma Discord or on the Forums.
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Kronzky - c

Posted on Aug 01, 2006 - 00:00 (UTC)

This is not the same as testing object == player, because in MP it tests for any player, not only for the local one. If object is a vehicle, the test is done for the vehicle commander.